‘’’’I have an older black friend who’s lived a rough life in many bad areas. Had lots of friends end up in jail or dead. He described to me how a friend of his went into jail straight and after being raped in jail was only interested in men after getting out. Personally, that sounds like a virus to me.’’’’
Sexual desire is an urge which might be relieved is certain different ways and not all of these are natural.
A person using some ways over another gets used to it due to a pleasure associated with beating the urge.
That’s why the first sexual experience is important.
If the person’s first experience is homosex he would seek it further a kind like a Pavlovian dog.
I have an additional/alternative theory: If a person is in a certain kind of distress, the devil (actually one or more of a host of demons, but we can collectively call it the devil) can then suggest a false relief to the distress. Something that brings pleasure at the time but effects compromise in the future. Kind of like spiritually eating one’s own seed corn.
And devil dominance can carry from person to person, such that the devils increase their territory.
It’s a cruel game, and it can require a Christ-grade cheer, love, and patience to reverse it. I simply feel sad for that friend who was compromised in that way. A genuine gospel message is needed. In a day and age where increasingly “you don’t talk about God in public or to strangers.” Well, except of course when you do.
This is also why Jesus hung around in His day’s demimonde.
These people — the prostitutes, thieves, and other low life people of His day — knew they were in trouble, and a strategic kind word from God could illuminate their soul’s night sufficiently to begin to move them towards the Dayspring.
Not so a whole lot of the official religious people. They could be like “whitewashed tombs” and lean on their pride, which in turn came from their cultivated public image.
I had a part sad, part funny experience with a pastor of a church that I had played piano in (like a boss) for three years, then left to take a job in another state. Suddenly this guy becomes hypersensitive to whatever I might be seen as implying, begins to blame me for all manner of bizarre things, and before long he’s fit to be tied. Well, he might have been idolizing me without either of us knowing it, and taken my departure as spiritual abandonment. Now, still being a believer, he isn’t in as bad a position as the Pharisees and Saduccees. But still he has a mountain of pride to move. Telling him about it is now the tricky thing.